BRIEF-CMA clears ASDA's acquisition of some stores in Essex

June 12 Competition and Markets Authority:

* Has decided, on information currently available to it,
that a relevant merger situation, has not been created in the
anticipated acquisition by ASDA stores limited of a co-op store
in Clacton-On-Sea, Essex, from Ardencrest Limited Industrial and
Provident Society
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